Song for Marion (2013)

Very best movie i ever watch

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There is nothing much original about A Song for Marion and ultimately it harms the film. Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) is dying of cancer but retains a zest for life and participates in a pensioners choir who do a revved up version of The Ace of Spades. She worries about her curmudgeonly husband Arthur (Terence Stamp) who resents her being in the choir when she is ill and he also has a strained relationship with their son James (Christopher Eccleston.)When Marion is gone Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton) who leads the choir tries to get Arthur to open up, put side his bitterness and get involved with the choir. The choir have managed to get through the finals of a competition but they are regarded as a one note joke.The old age pensioners tearing through the classics is a plus for the movie. Terence Stamp's angry character and his verbal sparring with Christopher Eccleston is straight out of the kitchen sink dramas of the 1960s and leaves a sour note.

This is a beautiful movie.With an talented and convincing cast, this film makes an instant connection with you which gets harder and harder to pull away from as the movie goes on.To summarise it, A Song For Marion (Unfinished Song) is about a grumpy pensioner who's wife has cancer. There are depressing moments in it, but it is guaranteed to make you laugh to -- something I look for in films.I have watched this film twice now, and I still cry as it's so, so emotional.Some good music and perfectly directed.I have to say that this is not only a great film, it's so, so underrated. I would recommend it for anyone aged between 9 and 109! It's fantastic and I can assure you, you will not regret it.

. . . (when you print out the "soundtrack" listing from this site, it runs three pages, which is unusually extensive), and no spousal abuse, unlike the similar flick nominated for the most recent so-called "best picture" Oscar, AMORE. With its refreshing lack of old people nudity, UNFINISHED SONG features some of Britain's greatest thespians (no matter how warped their real life personal political views might be--hey, give folks a break: Hitler was hilarious under Mel Brooks' direction!). In American movies of the last couple decades, nobody dies, unless it involves cartoon deaths in movies such as PACIFIC RIM, IRON MAN 3, RED, or whatever they called that last DIE HARD flick, or if the movie is designed as "Oscar bait," such as ZERO DARK THIRTY. When British movies feature old folks, on the other hand, someone's bound to croak, which has been more in line with the personal experience of my friends and relatives here in the States. So if you want fantasy, go Hollywood. But for something both moving AND realistic, try the U.K.

Grumpy pensioner Arthur (Terence Stamp) honors his recently deceased wife (Vanessa Redgrave)'s passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James (Chris Eccleston).The director, Paul Andrew Williams, made a name for himself in darker territory -- the wildly successful horror comedy "The Cottage" and the gritty home invasion story of "Cherry Tree Lane". The latter is so nasty that it left me (a hardened horror fan) squirming in my seat because of its realistic approach to the subject matter.With that background, Williams is just about the last person I would have expected to take on a heartwarming tale of curmudgeon and his wife's elderly singing troupe. And yet, he weaves everything together expertly. I smiled quite a bit (I rarely laugh). I was captivated. And what seemed like a pretty lame story from the plot was actually rather entertaining and the characters were people I could identify with.Really, though, the core of this film that separates it from others is the group of old folks singing rock and hip-hop songs. Maybe the joke is not completely new (Betty White has been pushing the envelope for a decade) but how can you argue with crotchety old fogies thrusting to Salt N Pepa and Motorhead? Definitely worth checking out, and fairly appropriate for the whole family.